The Bible passages above are both from John 3:16 in the New Testament. One is the King James version, the other the version preferred by the Ayore tribe of Cochabamba, Bolivia.

The Ayore Bible is one of about 40 printed by New Tribes Mission, a missionary training center in Sanford. The Bibles contain only the New Testament, and each is in the language of an obscure tribe of people who have never heard of Jesus Christ.

Forty Bibles does not seem like a lot when you consider the mission was founded in 1943. But it can take up to 20 years for some tomes to see the light of the printing press.

It begins when a team of missionaries is assigned a tribe in any of 16 countries, from New Guinea to Colombia. New Tribes says it has more than 2,400 missionaries. They are trained in phonetics and linguistics, but are not taught the native tongue of their sometimes-minuscule tribes.

Assigned to teams of two or three and encouraged to bring their families, the missionaries live for years with their tribe, learning its language, customs and mores.

Because many tribal languages are spoken but not written, missionaries must teach tribe members how to read their own language. When fluent, they begin typing the New Testament in tribal language on computers hooked to portable generators. Once completed, they teach the natives to read their own Bible.

''Our purpose in going there is not to make them civilized, but to teach them about Christ,'' said Grant Smith, who runs the print shop. ''Many of these tribal people are living in fear. They believe in evil spirits and sacrifices. Some of them don't have words for 'love' or 'forgiveness' in their language. One of the greatest things they can hear is that we know a God that loves them and sent his son to die for them.''

Smith is one of about 100 mission leaders and staff who, with their families, live and work in the old Mayfair on First Street, a three-story stucco manse hotel built in 1925 that once boasted the likes of Tallulah Bankhead, Arthur Godfrey and Al Capone. Now it houses an operation with 10 missionary training institutes, a medical center, a flight program, radio and TV broadcasts, a missionary retirement center and an operating budget last year of $18 million in donations from churches and individuals.

Across the street is the print shop, a former gymnasium that now houses a five-color web press, sewing, binding and packing machines. The building is strewn with photographs of tribal peoples - some turned into life-size cardboard cutouts that squat in corners. Baskets, garments made of feathers and bark, lizard skins and carved figurines fill the rooms, turning even a coffee break into an archaeological expedition.

Aside from hundreds of pamphlets, posters and training papers, Smith's shop prints about two Bibles a year. From 100 to 1,500 copies are made, depending on the size of the tribe. Each Bible costs about $10 to print. Overhead is low because most of the work at New Tribes is voluntary, with some staff getting stipends of about $150 a week.

They may be cheap labor, but their skills are valuable - some have doctoral degrees, others are computer programmers, engineers, pilots, artists and linguists, to name a few. All work full time at New Tribes.

''We could all go out and have larger incomes than what we have here,'' said Smith, who has been with the mission since 1964. But not until the last tribe is reached, and that won't be for some time, he said.

''There's probably 2,000 tribal people in the world right now who don't have Scripture in their own language.''